House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that he believes a Russian lawyer’s 2016 offer of damaging information on Hillary Clinton to members of the Trump campaign and their subsequent meeting amounts to “direct evidence” of collusion.
“I think there is direct evidence in the emails from the Russians through their intermediary offering dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what is described in writing as the Russian government effort to help elect Donald Trump,” Schiff said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“They offer that dirt. There is an acceptance of that offer in writing form the president’s son, Don Jr., and there is overt acts and furtherance of that,” he added, citing a summer 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between the Russian lawyer and members of the president’s team.
“That to me is direct evidence,” Schiff continued. “But there’s also abundant circumstantial evidence.”
He pointed to charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s testimony as examples.
Rep. Adam Schiff says the emails from Russians offering the Trump campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton are "direct evidence" of collusion https://t.co/QheiKiQQOI pic.twitter.com/Q6l06nKLzp
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 3, 2019
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JUST IN: Schiff says there's "direct evidence" of collusion between Trump campaign and Russia https://t.co/5V7JP6Ki8P pic.twitter.com/gzqmuO4sIZ
— The Hill (@thehill) March 3, 2019
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